Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread.